"That he's been gone a week and this statement came out is bad timing and bad taste and Suzanne, you know better," Whoopi continued. "And I'm not sure that's not what you meant to do, but you should have thought about it"

Somers came under fire last week for comments she made about Swayze in a new interview with Toronto's National Post.

"They took this beautiful man and they basically put poison in him," Somers reportedly told National Post columnist Shinan Govani. "Why couldn't they have built him up nutritionally and gotten rid of the toxins in his body?"

"In a casual conversation at a private party (with someone who never identified himself as a reporter) at the Toronto Film Festival last week, I was asked about this beloved actor. It was never my intention to make an official statement about his passing," she wrote in a blog post. "I was not informed or aware I was being interviewed. I would never have been so insensitive as to offer a public statement so close to his untimely passing. I sincerely apologize if my comment has caused any additional pain to his family during this difficult time. I send my deepest condolences for their loss."